Alex Jones Might Like Guns

Alex Jones's gun rant on Piers Morgan would border on absurd if it was written in Sorkinese for HBO's The Newsroom, but it's actually more terrifying in reality. After invoking the names of Hitler and Stalin, and then browbeating the British host for our victory in the Revolutionary War a couple hundred years ago, Jones offers to take Morgan shooting so he can "become an American." Because to Jones and others, guns, and our right to own them regardless of the violence in Aurora and Newtown, is apparently what defines us as a country.

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Just this morning Stephen Marche wrote about how Justified is "a show about people who love guns, and on the other hand, it's a show about how guns need to be taken out of the hands of people who are crazy." I think Alex Jones just joined that list.

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